Living Standards

Part of Opposition Day — [Un-Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 8:51 pm on 5 March 2012.

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Photo of Richard Fuller Richard Fuller Conservative, Bedford 8:51, 5 March 2012

My right hon. Friend is making very good points about the importance of companies being profitable so that they can pay tax, but when it comes to bankers and high earners paying taxes does he think that it is more important that the tax take is as high as it can be, or that we have a headline-grabbing marginal tax rate? Which is more important: the take or the rate?